Immigration Controls: Criminal Records

(asked on 15th April 2026) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department is taking to ensure people arriving from (a) EU states and (b) non-EU sates are subject to criminal record checks when entering the UK.


Answered by
Mike Tapp Portrait
Mike Tapp
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)
This question was answered on 27th April 2026

Border Force performs checks on 100% of passengers arriving at the UK border on scheduled services, enabling interventions against those known or suspected to pose a risk to the national interest.

Border Force work alongside other law enforcement agencies at the border and will share information and refer cases when necessary to detect and deter criminality.

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